This year, I’ve decided to write about someone who is relatively unknown in the broader web community but is very knowledgeable in the accessibility field. She would never blow her own horn, which means that only those of us who have had the pleasure of working with her knows how good she is. She’s a shy and quiet type, and is truly one of the nicest and most generous person I know. She has been working in the tech and user experience field for a while. She’s smart, passionate and she knows her accessibility stuff.

I want you to meet my friend and colleague, Kim Chatterjee. What I love about Kim is her willingness to share her knowledge and time to help everyone, even if it means very little sleep for her! She has a detailed understanding of accessibility and has spent quite a few years doing some cool accessibility work in Government. She’s also really great at communicating complex concepts through interesting and lovely visuals. She’s really humble about her achievements so if you do get to meet her, she won’t tell you how good she is but if you get to chat to her, you’ll soon realise the depth and breadth of her accessibility knowledge.

While others are out and about talking the talk, Kim is busy with the actual doing. She’s helped to inspire a number of people about accessibility, who have now gone on into other organisations either carrying a passion for accessibility or having an increased awareness of accessibility. Now that’s inspirational.

The highly anticipated BarCampCanberra event happened yesterday, with a large gathering of smart and passionate folks from around Canberra, Yass, Wollongong and Sydney discussing interesting topics such as Government 2.0, social innovation, collaboration, typography, hackerspaces and more.

For those unfamiliar with the BarCamp concept:

BarCampCanberra is a free-to-attend community-run conference where anyone can come and watch, participate or present on anything they are passionate about – either something interesting they’ve been working on, an idea they’d like to present or to brainstorm the solution to a problem with a bunch of like-minded smart people

We had over 150 people registered for the event, 46 pizzas consumed, 72 bottles of water drunk (plus the additional cups and water containers) and 39 sessions including a series of 5 minute lighting talks (I love the 5 minute lighting talk format).

The event was tweeted, flickred, livestreamed and Googled waved. We were even covered in the Canberra Times (page 8 of the Sunday 7th February newspaper).

Some of my favourite quotes about BarCampCanberra comes from @dekrazee1:

Brain is still abuzz from #bcc2010. BarCamp is the techy equivalent of a day spa. Energising and invigorating. #I<3BarCamp

@ozdj:

@RazChorev Yep. Sound ROI. That $50 of fuel (and ~8hrs of travel time) got me about $500 worth of education today. #bcc2010

Key themes

The key themes from BarCampCanberra #3 were social innovation (particularly around the grass roots level), government engagement and activity (engagement and activity is not the same thing) and taking action after conversation.

My presentation

I was too busy running between rooms to actually sit down and listen to the presentations in full, particularly for the first half of the day. I manage to present in the afternoon on a number of topics that’s important to me: critical thinking, skepticism and quirkology.

I also manage to catch the Make Hack Void presentation (@evildeece, @__dev_dsp, @_xmd_), @evildeece ACT solar tariff, Bob Edward’s I have no Friends on Facebook presentation and all of the lightning talks in the afternoon. @sabman’s Mapping of Haiti presentation was a particular stand out.

Thanks

Many thanks to all the wonderful presenters who took the time and effort to share their knowledge. I know that it takes a lot to get up there and talk or run a discussion group, even in this type of informal setting. It was my husband’s first time getting up and talking in front of such a crowd and I’m pleased that first time presenters are able to present in a non-threatening environment.

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors: Powerhouse Museum, Microsoft, Crystal Approach, Schmooze, SassySEO.com and TheRohans.com.

Thanks to my co-unorganisers: @NathanaelB, @RohanM, @CraigThomler, @lozz, @RaeBuerckner, @Klepas and @Caronne (who couldn’t make it, but had her partner drive all the way to the venue with much needed powerboards and extension cables!). Thanks also to the wonderful Gavin (@wingedmonkeyboy) who was busy running between all three rooms to get photos of the crowds and the presenters.

Thanks to the ANU and Bob Edwards for providing the venue and wireless.

Clever and useful stuff

• Check out the presentations – BarCamp Canberra #3 on slideshare
• Check out the photos tagged #bcc2010 – Barcamp Canberra #3 photos on flickr
• See who registered – BarCamp Canberra #3 on Eventbrite
• Read the twitter stream
• We made it into the Canberra times!
• Check out the tweeting stats for the event
• @laurentlefort’s Twitter list of BCC2010 attendees

Update: Many thanks to Geoff from @SubwayBelconnen who provided the salads and subs at BarCampCanberra!

Here’s a rundown of some of the presentations. Not every session is covered.

The evolution of the agile IA

Matthew Hodgson

Matt gave an entertaining talk about the evolution of IA and about applying agile principles to our IA work. Key takeaways included:

• Agile means breaking the project into smaller pieces
• Prioritise, Iterate, Reuse
• Flexible user-negotiated scope, everything else is fixed
• As IAs we must:

• Continue to evolve
• Steal what makes sense
• Adapt it & make it ours

See his presentation at prezi: The evolution of the agile IA

Guiding the way to living greener – how psychology helped IA for a new government website

Ben Crothers

Ben presented a case study about livinggreener.gov.au. He noted that people do not start and end with one task therefore we should employ motivational psychology where the design should cater for the motivations and situations of people using the site. We should lead people on a journey by capturing them at their point of need and using a ‘concierge’ interaction model.

View his presentation on slideshare: Guiding the way to living greener – how psychology helped IA for a new government website

Bringing them online: using design research to identify online opportunities

Patrick Kennedy and Alun Machin

Patrick and Alun presented a case study on the Super Racing site (soon to be released) and the techniques used on this project as well as the challenges faced. Techniques included secondary research (literature review and competitor review), use of Google trends, user research methods such as interviews and diary studies and more.

See their presentation on slideshare: Bringing them online: Using design research to identify online opportunities

Tears, tantrums and triumphs

Meghan Hayes and Ladan Wise

This was one of my favourite presentations. My work colleague Meghan and Ladan provided an entertaining look at the 18 months journey of consolidating 50 plus websites into one website and 40 plus intranet sites into one intranet. There were a lot of politics to deal with and the site managed to survive through a change in state Government direction. One of the key learnings was about providing visual stories to key decision makers, and having individual meetings prior to big group meetings to understand and address stakeholder concerns.

This presentation also had one of my favourite quotes – “I don’t believe in card sorting. That’s ok, it’s not a religion.”

See their presentation on slideshare: Tears, Tantrums and Triumphs OZIA 2009

Navigation models: efficiency versus user preference

David Humphreys

Dave presented the results of their research into different navigation models including:

• Single level vertical drop down menus
• Multi level horizontal fly-out menus
• Use of landing/index/navigation pages with in-page links
• Mega drop-down navigation menus

Looks like Dave has confirmed that fly-outs causes problems, particularly for older users and those without fine motor skills. Mega drop-downs can work but depends on the situation.

See Dave’s presentation on slideshare: Navigation Models: Efficiency versus user preference

We’re still too fluffy

Anthony Colfelt

Anthony’s key messages included embracing our inner salesperson so we can make a difference to the decision maker. He covered the idea adoption path, where the aim is to lead the business people along the path of Unaware, Aware but inactive, Aware and active, and the Decision (which includes incentives for the business).

Presentation available at slideshare: We’re still too fluffy

Spoilt for choice: which prototyping tool is right for you?

Suze Ingram

My colleague Suze took us on a whirlwind tour of a large number of prototyping tools, looking at factors such as cost, learning curve, ability to share projects etc. The ‘gold stars’ were awarded to Expression blend and Axure.

See her presentation on slideshare: Spoilt for choice. Which prototyping tool is right for you?

IA failures in social networking platforms

Andrew Boyd

Andrew took us on a tour of some of the major social networking platforms and some of the key IA problems. One example that stood out was the Events in Facebook – it’s extremely difficult to locate, particularly once you have created the events. Something I wasn’t aware was the little bar of icons on the bottom left of Facebook – one of the icons will lead you to the events! (When I checked my Facebook page, I couldn’t seem to see this – another indication of the IA failure of Facebook?).

See Andrew’s presentation on slideshare: IA Failures in Social Networking Platforms

The art of skywriting: the demise of the tag cloud

Gary Barber

Gary showed us the history of the tag cloud and its varied usage. He questions whether tag clouds are still worthwhile being included in interface design as there are still many people who don’t understand what they are. Tag clouds should really be about audience determination, navigational aid and to visualise semantic categorisation. He proposes that some of the challenges around tag clouds can be address through the use of index or button clouds and combined with search. He mentioned that there are still accessibility issues to be overcome.

See his presentation on slideshare: The Art of Skywriting – The Demise of the Tag Cloud

It’s not easy being green: challenges faced when designing software for the Army

Matt Fisher

This was one of my favourite presentations from the conference. Matt showed us the reality of designing systems for a military environment which presents a number of challenges and obstacles that we don’t often see in our day to day work. This included no access to the cloud, bandwidth issues, limited or no electricity, environmental factors (inhospitable environment), human fatigue, the trade off between security and usability and more. He provided an interesting discussion on low-cost disruption tolerant networks and their application to third/real-world problems.

Playing games with culture

Matt Moore

Matt ran an interactive session where we were introduced to the Organisational Culture Cards and Knowledge Management Methods Cards from Straits Knowledge.

IA tools for measuring cultural readiness for web 2.0

Matthew Hodgson

Matt presented his really interesting hybrid card sorting tool that he used on a recent project to determine the organisational readiness for incorporating web 2.0 tools as part of an intranet. You can download the cards from Web 2.0 cards (PDF).

See his presentation on slideshare: IA Tools For Measuring Cultural Readiness For Web 2.0 In The Enterprise

Huge data, little screen: using site search on mobile

Melissa Cooper

Melissa presented an interesting case study of ABC’s mobile version of The Big Diary. Key takeaways from her presentation included:

• Make options visible
• Support specific criteria
• Provide refinement
• Search feedback
• Support repeat users
• Major part of mobile design is deciding what to leave out

Check out her presentation on slideshare: Huge Data, Little Screen: Assisting Mobile Users Finding Information Quickly Using Site Search

I don’t know much about the web but I know what I like

Jonathan Cooper from the Art Gallery of NSW

Jonathan gave a very entertaining presentation on how principles and techniques used in art museum education can be applied to the web. Some of my favourite nuggets included:

• Coining of the word meantness – “meant to be”
• “Meantness is about unity. Websites need unity and consistency to allow visitors to build mental model.”
• “A mismatch can be more telling than a match”
• “When you have a certain amount of order, you can have a little bit of disorder and it still looks ok
• The use of framing to define art

He has written an article based on his presentation titled I don’t know much about the web but I know what I like

Not to prime is a crime

Jodie Moule

Jodie covered issues around gathering feedback including whether the setting in which user feedback is received is aligned with user’s mindset and whether usability testing focuses too much on left brain thinking. She discusses ‘priming’, which is about playing to both sides of the brain. Jodie demonstrated a technique that her company employs, which involves asking users to complete creative tasks during recruitment as it assists recruits tap into right-side brain. An example is the creation of collages to create a point of discussion during sessions.

These are a few of my favourite things

Rod Farmer and Oliver Weidlich

Rod’s and Oliver’s presentation really brought home the challenges of designing for mobile devices. There are many factors to consider including the device, platform, browser and the cost to the consumer when every KB counts. Other points included:

• Proliferation of platforms and screen sizes
• 40% of data traffic is iPhone/Smartphones
• We need to understand the ecosystem not just the UI – ecosystem includes manufacturers, devices, OS, networks, carriers, service providers
• Mobile behaviour – 15 mins per session. 1.2 sessions per day. 3-4 sticky products. 15s page loads
• Reduce no of options on page, bubble content to the top, keep IA very simple, define what your product does

Sharing information in an Augmented Reality environment

Rob Manson

Rob took us through a tour of how augmented reality can change our perception of space and collaboration. One of the new tools is the world’s first augmented reality browser layar, which unfortunately is only currently available for Android phones.

His presentation is available on slideshare: Sharing information in an Augmented Reality environment

Thanks!

Thanks to Eric Scheid for putting together an interesting conference, to the volunteers for the smooth running of the conference, and all of the presenters. Stand outs included the barista and fruit cocktail bar, Star City for understanding our geek needs (they ran powerboards to the tables so we could get access to power for our devices throughout the entire conference), the food and to Matt Balara for his excellent sketchnotes. Thanks also to the sponsors Happener, Rosenfeld, Ironclad Networks, Charles Sturt University, WIPA and the Information Architecture Institute.

Check out the twitter stream and the photos on flickr.

Updated 6 October 2009: I updated a few typos and links to presentations. Added a summary of Ben Crothers talk.

Updated 7 October 2009: Added a link to Ladan and Meghan’s presentation on slideshare.

My presentation is titled From Apples to eye surgery: designing useful user experiences and you can catch it below:

PS: Apologies for not posting a bit more of an explanation about the presentation – I’m in a rush to pack for my Gold Coast holiday!

Who presented?

As I have yet to master the art of splitting my self into two, here’s a quick run down of the talks I heard:

• David Page introduced us to the concept of the Yubikey – a usb key authentication system. It provides single or two factor authentication and is quite affordable. Catch The Yubikey presentation on slideshare.
• Rohan Mitchell shared his adventures in online business. My favourite slide from his presentation? Slide 18 The Learning Curve, which involves:
  1. Make something cool
  2. ???
  3. Profit!

  Catch the rest of his Adventures in Online Business on slideshare.

• One of the highlights was Pamela Fox’s presentation on making the google map for the Victorian bushfires. It was fascinating hearing about the solutions they came up with in the challenging environment, with key issues being the short time frames and lack of open data. It really highlighted the problems we face when data (particularly emergency data) is not made available in formats that enable reuse. Read more on Pamela’s blog post BarCamp Canberra 2: Mapping the Fires.
• Another highlight was Joseph Gentle‘s presentation on Artificial intelligence. He took a complex subject and made it really easy to understand. Loved it.
• Craig Thomler took us through his experiences on blogging as a public servant – a very informative presentation.
• Linda Gehard ran an interactive impromptu workshop on the good and bad of mobile phone design.
• Darren Menachemson gave an interesting talk about designing out evil, complete with great graphs!
• Caronne Carruthers-Taylor gave an interesting presentation on her experiences with UX and design. Catch her presentation Change the world with UX: user experience in federal government on slideshare.
• Dean K held an interesting discussion about the No Clean Feed recent rally and opportunities to influence the decision makers. He also raised the idea that the solutions we propose need to provide a way for Stephen Conroy to save face.
• Nathanael Boehm introduced us to Resilient Nation Australia.

My presentation

I did a light hearted presentation on The Uncanny Valley:

Find out what else happened

Didn’t make it to BarCamp Canberra #2? You can:

• Watch the presentations on slideshare
• See the photos on flickr
• Find out who came to BarCamp Canberra #2
• Catch the twitter stream
• Visit the websites mentioned in the presentations, tagged in my delicious bookmarks

Thanks

Thanks to the unorganisers (Andrew Boyd, Stephen Collins, Simon Pascal Klein, Nathanael Boehm, Craig Thomler, Rae Buerckner, Darren Menachemson) for putting together a great event and the sponsors (acidlabs, Five Senses Coffee, UX Australia,
Keith Lang, Australian Anthill, Electric Shadows Bookshop).

Can’t wait for BarCamp Canberra #3!

From the Ada Lovelace Day pledge site:

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.

I have many female friends who are doing wonderful work in the technology industry – too many to name but here’s a few Aussie females that I’ll like to sing out about.

• Donna – she is a great information architect, the Queen of Card Sorting and contributes much of her time to the web community. She’s always happy to share her knowledge and experience.
• Caronne – I love her passion for the work we do. She’s an extremely supportive person and manages to balance work, life, web community stuff and life with two teens. She does amazing stuff with advocating great user experiences in Government agencies that many people don’t hear about!
• Susan – one of the many challenging things of being a women is the ability to juggle multiple stressful components of our life. Susan is amazing – she loves the work she does and some how, manages to balance work, family, photography, blogging and web stuff!
• Viv – a special person I used to work with who is passionate about accessibility and user experience. She’s a solid rock for any team that she’s on and is always quietly working away in the background getting stuff done. It’s people like Viv who work so hard and never seem to get recognition for the hard work they do – so here’s my shout out to you Viv!
• Lisa – is amazing. She knows a lot of things about accessibility, usability and user experience. We have a very similiar approach to the work we do. She’s a very calming influence and I admire her passion for the work we do.

There are many other females out there who also doing great work (I’m looking at you Teresa, Amie, Suze, Lana!).

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

The Canberra rally will occur this Saturday 13 December from 12pm in City Walk. The full details of the No Clean Feed Canberra rally is available at the Facebook event page. If you can’t access the Facebook page, check out this alternate page instead.

Need more info?

• Get informed – http://www.nocleanfeed.com
• Get involved - http://nocensorship.info/forum
• Official petition – http://www.wakinggiant.org/au_censorship.htm

One of my favourite sites about the mandatory internet filtering issue is Think of the children!

Web Directions Government started with a very fresh morning, complete with frost on my car that took ages to defrost! My car told me that it was zero degrees when I left the house… Anyhow, Web Directions Government is the first Web Directions conference to be held in Canberra, targeted specifically at the Government sector. Here’s a quick run down of the day:

• I started the day with Jason Ryan‘s breakfast talk about Government 2.0 – The public challenge. I really enjoyed Jason’s talk about the challenges with Government 2.0 with the key themes of Change, Strategy and Control. Key ideas included encouraging everyone to engage, have a good understanding of your people and of the environment. Key quotes from the session, “most importantly, you have to trust your staff”, “when it comes to engagement, mediocrity is not an option” and “just bloody well do it!”.
• eGovernment by José Manuel Alonso – “removing the e from eGovernment”. He talked about the challenges facing Governments doing business online and the need for participation and transparency. Check out eGovernment at W3C.
• Real world web standards by Scott Gledhill – a case study of the redesign of News.com.au and associated websites. Interesting learnings about the need for clear communications and established rules, even in a team full of people who know their stuff.
• One paper clip, a box of matches, and some JavaScript by Patrick Lee – Patrick covered lots of examples of using JavaScript in the real world. Love the MacGyver references!
• Usability: more than skin deep by Lisa Herrod – I heard this at last year’s Web Directions South but it’s still as enjoyable the second time round. Lisa is always a great speaker to listen to and I love how we have a very similiar holistic approach to our user experience work!
• ABC’s election site: making the most of dry data by Andrew Kesper – Andrew covered a range of design decisions taken for the ABC election site. Very interesting look at the various technologies involved, especially the interactive maps.
• The essential elements of great web applications by Robert Hoekman Jr – a great presentation to finish the conference. Robert covered his seven key principles for great web design, including my favourite, “reduce, reduce, reduce” (minimalist designs appeal to me both online and in the real world).

Thanks to John and Maxine and their team of helpers for putting on a conference in Canberra! I had a great time and will definitely attend next year.

GovDex: a tool to support collaboration across government agencies

The first speaker was Brian Stonebridge from the Department of Finance and Deregulation, who talked about GovDex. GovDex is a resource developed by government agencies to promote interoperability and collaboration within Government. It provides governance, tools, methods and re-usable technical components that government agencies can use to when developing information services. GovDex can be used by all levels of Government (federal, state and local) and provides the facility to have private and public sites. Most GovDex sites are currently private.

GovDex is currently secured to IN-CONFIDENCE level of security, with PROTECTED security planned for GovDex 2. GovDex is built on the Confluence platform.

Brian and his team member Rita provided some examples of the use of GoxDex. One was the Five Nationals Collaboration Workspace, which provides collaboration for meetings between five Governments around the world. Another example is the Australian Government ICT Standards Interest Group, which is used to establish the Australian Government position on OOXML (a hot topic!).

Kate from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts also presented a GovDex site that they’re currently using for incoming Graduates for both DEWHA and Department of Climate Change. The site is used to keep in touch with the incoming Graduates who are often spread around Australia (I reckon that there are quite a few overseas enjoying a holiday before starting work!). The site provides information about Canberra, the Department, HR information, training information etc. She provided a lot of positive feedback about GovDex but also mentioned that the uptake hasn’t been as good as expected.

If you’re wondering why there hasn’t been any big announcements of GovDex, the reason is that the Department of Finance and Deregulation has done a soft launch rather than take a big bang approach. They’re still checking for scalability issues and ironing out some usability issues with the user interface. What I found particularly interesting was Brian’s comment that he expects to see a bigger uptake of collaboration tools under our new Government. It’s interesting to see the influence of culture from top down when it comes to collaborating within and between agencies and departments. It might still take a while for it to filter across federal Government but it’s definitely encouraging.

Wikis at work

The next speaker was Michele Huston, the Director of Web Publishing at the National Library of Australia. She presented a case study on the implementation of wikis at the NLA. Michele stated that libraries, rather than being as starting point for information access like it was in the days before this prevalent use of the internet, are now just one of many nodes of information. This results in exploring new ways of managing knowledge. Hence the interest in wikis as a new way of managing information.

Wikis in the NLA have been in existence for about two years although it’s picked up a lot more popularity through out the Library over the past year. They are also using Confluence as the technological platform which had features additional to the ‘standard wiki’, such as access control, a WYSIWYG (which was a key requirement from NLA) and the ability to post news items. The wiki started with two projects and was exposed to the rest of the Library via one particular project.

Library users liked the wikis and have been using it across a range of things including IT documentation, rosters, processes etc. They liked the flexibility, freedom and trust that came with a wiki. It’s not all roses though. There are some issues with the user interface, scalability, and the wiki also provides another spot to store documents. In addition, the same elements (flexibility, freedom and trust) that they liked were also the same elements that they didn’t like due to the feelings of uncertainty of some users. Michele also mentioned that what hasn’t worked is archiving of documents and publishing workflows.

What I found really interesting is the culture of trust within the NLA. There wasn’t much governance around wikis. All staff can request a wiki and all staff can edit any of the wikis. Michele has found that staff were more comfortable exploring, creating content and making edits in their own wiki space, rather than one big overall organisational wiki. She has also found that no matter how messy the content may look, staff do go back to clean it up later on

So is it a success? Michele states that it depends upon how you define success. They currently have 88 wikis which have been implemented over the past two years. The take-up within the organisation has been great. To me, it definitely sounds like a success.

Trust

So the question is whether a wiki will work in your organisation. There are many factors that will influence the success of wikis within the workspace but one of the key ones for me is trust. For wikis to work, you need to trust your staff. This is often much harder in the Government space but as long as you trust your staff to do the right thing (i.e. treat your staff like adults), this will go a long way in fostering a collaborative working environment.

Website user experience & CSS workshop

The first is the Website user experience & CSS workshop run by my friends Donna Maurer and Russ Weakley. They are both experienced teachers and trainers – I attended one of Russ’ CSS workshops a few years ago and it was excellent and Donna is one of the most experienced Information Architects in the world.

This is a hands-on workshop where you will will learn to build detailed websites layouts from the ground up – starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.

The workshops will be held in four cities:

• Canberra – Monday 31 March and Tuesday 1 April
• Melbourne – Thursday 3 April and Friday 4 April
• Sydney – Monday 28 April and Tuesday 29 April
• Brisbane – Thursday 1 May and Friday 2 May

More information and registration can be done over at http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/

Web Directions South Government

Brought to you by the same folks who run the excellent Web Directions conferences, Web Directions South Government (Gov08) will be held in Canberra on 19 and 20 May. Gov08 will be a full day two track conference, plus an optional extra day of workshops, focussing on the concepts, technologies and techniques for meeting the challenges of eGovernment.

The line-up of speakers look great. If the past Web Directions are anything to go by then this is sure to be yet another great conference.

More information is available at http://gov08.webdirections.org/

Web Directions UX08

Also brought to you the same folks who run the Web Directions conferences, Web Directions UX08 is a full day two track conference, plus an optional extra day of workshops, focussing on concepts, technologies and techniques for building great user experiences on the web.

More information is available at http://ux08.webdirections.org/

BarCamp Canberra

I’ve announced it in an earlier post – BarCamp Canberra is happening 1000-1700 on Saturday 19 April 2008 at the CSIT Building, North Road, ANU.

More information and registration can be done at http://barcamp.org/BarCampCanberra

BarCamp Sydney

BarCamp Sydney is happening 9am-5.30pm on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 April 2008 (the weekend before School Holidays) at the Roundhouse at UNSW, Anzac Parade.

More information and registration can be done at http://barcamp.org/BarCampSydney

Canberra Web Standard Group

Canberra Web Standards Group is happening tomorrow! We have two interesting topics covering GovDex: a tool to support collaboration across government agencies, and Wikis at work and it’s FREE.

More information and registration can be done at http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=150

IA Cocktail Hour

Another free event for the Information Architects (IA) community and those interested in this space. This will be held tomorrow straight after Web Standards Group meeting.

More information can be found at http://iacanberra.org/2008/03/26/ia-cocktail-hour-27-march-2008/